"“I would refer you to public documents on the Playpen investigation, in which we seized and operated a darkweb child pornography site for a period of less than

"“I would refer you to public documents on the Playpen investigation, in which we seized and operated a darkweb child pornography site for a period of less than two weeks,” That reads to me like yes, they were running the fully operational CP sites and allowing it to continue to serve up CP. The ends do not justify the means. ANd nobody has raised the question of how this can actually be done legally - under current law is there a way to make the serving up of CP content a sufficiently grey area that it's permissible to do with only judicial approval? If not, seems to me the individuals managing the site for the window of federal operations have the potential to be in a whole mess of trouble. If so, that seems a thing that should be fixed.